WAR & PEACE: What Did It Get You?

A rumpled, bulky, droop-mustached man stood beside the white dazzle of
the Unknown Soldier's marble tomb in Arlington Cemetery. He too had
been a soldierSergeant Alvin C. York, the Tennessee mountaineer who,
23 years ago, singlehanded, disabled a German machine-gun battery and
with seven privates killed or captured 152 of its defenders. He spoke:
"Liberty is not merely something the veterans inherited. Liberty
is something they fought to keep. . . .

"There are those in our country today who ask me and the other
veterans who fought in World War No. i:...